Knowledge Management

Retaining deep insights, discoveries gleaned through research and expert operational experience is sisyphean. Taking notes doesn’t scale. The more notes you take, the more time it takes to categorize and later find a note. There is a point when it becomes faster to ask a search engine or chatbot than to search through the notes.

Feb 2015 — LearningMaterials document collection

I added the first document when I was starting university. Its subjects range from algorithm design to writing. I can’t remember the last time I retrieved a document from LearningMaterials. Internet search engines are faster and show up-to-date information.

Feb 2016 — Bookmark collection

When researching a subject I’d bookmark, tag and sort pages into directories. Because tools for managing bookmarks are rudimentary, as the number of bookmarks, directories and tags increased, it became unscalable to sort pages into directories. Bookmarks are now divided into two directories: tagged and untagged. Searching through bookmarks before using a search engine gives me a good research starting point.

Feb 2017 — Knowledge repository

The knowledge repository was my first attempt at a memex. Its tagline was “to combat forgetfulness”. Unfortunately, as time went on it turned into a documentation reading journal.

June 2024 — Website memex

With the advent of paid search engines and generative AI able to quickly, cheaply and precisely answer sophisticated questions, note-taking and knowledge management and retention is now best done through stories, specialization and automation.